Location Display Patents (Class 455/457)
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Patent number: 11455798Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging portion that images a subject; a positional information acquisition portion that acquires positional information of an imaging position; a control portion which acquires information on the subject based on the positional information, and displays image data of the subject and the information on the subject on a display portion; and a hold control portion that outputs a hold control signal, which holds the image data of the subject and the information on the subject, to the control portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hideya Inoue
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Patent number: 11451932Abstract: In certain embodiments, initiation of a location-triggered communication with a user may be facilitated. Communication may be initiated with a user (e.g., on a mobile device) based on an occurrence of a location trigger corresponding to a destination location at which the communication is to be initiated. The occurrence of the location trigger indicates the user is likely on the way to the destination location. The occurrence may be predicted based on mobile device location-independent user location information obtained from a data stream of a real-time application. For example, an event location and an event time of an event associated with the user may be extracted from the data stream and used to predict the occurrence.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Brian McGill, Micah Price, Krista Rister
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Patent number: 11452059Abstract: A system includes: an interface; and a processor configured to: receive one or more search criteria from the interface, the one or more search criteria being a first portion of a search query; determine a second portion of the search query based on the first portion of the search query and an association of the first portion of the search query with an entity, the search query being a request for a location of a target device associated with the entity; cause a transceiver of the interface to transmit the search query wirelessly in one or more outbound electronic signals to a first intermediate device; receive one or more inbound electronic signals from the first intermediate device via the interface, the one or more inbound electronic signals including a location of the target device; and cause the interface to provide an indication of the location of the target device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ju-Yong Do, Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Weihua Gao, Meghna Agrawal, Gengsheng Zhang
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Patent number: 11438733Abstract: A method for determining location based on nearby devices includes receiving a broadcast message from a proximate device over a wireless personal area network, triggering an event that requires recording location data and time data, and establishing a connection over the wireless personal area network to the proximate device. The method further includes requesting proximate location data from the proximate device over the connection with a user device location request and receiving the proximate location data from the proximate device in a proximate device location response.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Intuit Inc.Inventors: Andrew Fisher, Brik Royster, Devin Shively, Jared Isaac Guttromson, Joshua Harrison, Josue David Tello
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Patent number: 11436566Abstract: Described herein is a contextual contact recommendation or suggestion service and system. The service, which, in some embodiments, is integrated with a social networking service and/or an instant messaging service, takes as input a first parameter that identifies a member of the social networking service, and a second parameter that defines a context (e.g., a web page that is being viewed by the member. The service, based in part on the context, computes a ranked list of members to populate a contextual contact list, thereby recommending or suggesting contacts, with whom the member might be interested in initiating, or continuing, a conversation, based on the context of the member's current web browsing session. Optionally, the service may take as input a third parameter, defining a use case, such that the recommendation algorithm can be customized by use case.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sammy Shreibati, Vivian Mak Urata, Mark Hull, Haiyang Liu, Birjodh Tiwana, Siva Visakan Sooriyan, Jesse Jyh-Cherng Hsia, Michael Joshua Aft, Kinjal Basu, Shaunak Chatterjee
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Patent number: 11432111Abstract: A server performs: acquiring measurement data of a mobile terminal; extracting fixed AP measurement data of a specific fixed AP; extracting measurement data including a measurement time of which a difference from the measurement time in the fixed AP measurement data is equal to or less than a threshold value, position information of which a difference from a position of the specific fixed AP is equal to or less than a threshold value, and a reception intensity of which a difference from the reception intensity in the fixed AP measurement data is equal to or less than a threshold value as target measurement data and to set the radio access point corresponding to the target measurement data as a target AP; and determining whether the target AP corresponds to a fixed AP on the basis of the measurement data corresponding to the target AP and the fixed AP measurement data.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tomohiro Nakagawa, Atsushi Wada, Shoichi Horiguchi, Junkou Katou
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Patent number: 11432164Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a computer system for providing a service consumption plan for efficient service migration in a mobile edge computing (MEC) environment, and a method thereof. The computer system and the method may be configured to construct a graph representing edges indicating a plurality of road segments and a plurality of MEC servers covering the road segments, detect the service consumption plan for maximizing a ratio of a utilized journey time, which is served through at least one of the MEC servers for a total journey time, with respect to paths between a starting vertex and a goal vertex set by a user by using the graph, and provide the user with the service consumption plan.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: In-Young Ko, Moonyoung Lee
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Patent number: 11425525Abstract: A platform that facilities preservation of user privacy with respect to location-based applications executing on mobile computing devices is described. The platform registers triggers that are set forth by location-based applications, where a trigger specifies one or more rules and includes a location constraint. The platform causes a sensor on the mobile computing device to output location data, and the platform determines if the trigger has been satisfied by comparing the location constraint with the location data. If the trigger is satisfied, the platform transmits a callback to the application. Accordingly, the application does not receive location data from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Saikat Guha, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Mudit Jain
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Patent number: 11423133Abstract: Maintaining information for a traveler includes creating a virtual travel credential containing information from a physical passport of the traveler and/or physical travel document(s) of the traveler, storing at least a portion of the virtual travel credential in a mobile device carried by the traveler, monitoring a location of the mobile device, and providing a signal in response to the mobile device transitioning from a first country/territory to a second country/territory. Monitoring the location of the mobile device may include detecting a cellular network in communication with the mobile device or using GPS functionality of the mobile device or receiving information that the traveler boarded a plane headed for the second country/territory. At least a portion of the virtual travel credential may be stored in a virtual travel credential server. The virtual travel credential server may communicate with the mobile device using a cellular network.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: ASSA ABLOY ABInventors: Robert Haslam, Stephen Kelly, Philip Hoyer, Stephen Warne
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Patent number: 11418929Abstract: Systems and methods for sharing location information during a message conversation are provided. An electronic device displays a message region for displaying a message transcript of messages sent between a first participant and a second participant in a message conversation. The electronic device displays a location-sharing affordance. The electronic device detects a selection of the location-sharing affordance, where detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance by the first participant comprises detecting a single contact by the first participant. In response to detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance, the electronic device enables the second participant to obtain the first participant location information and displays a modified location-sharing affordance.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Megan M. Frost, Joshua B. Dickens, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os, Richard R. Dellinger, Lawrence Y. Yang
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Patent number: 11409007Abstract: A communication apparatus calculates information about a position of the communication apparatus based on a GPS radio wave and registers the calculated information about the position as an installation position of the communication apparatus when a measured strength of the GPS radio wave is equal to or stronger than a predetermined strength, when the measured strength of the GPS radio wave is equal to or stronger than the predetermined strength, periodically calculates the information about the position of the communication apparatus based on the GPS radio wave or the like, uses the calculated information of the position as a current position of the communication apparatus, compares the current position of the communication apparatus with the registered installation position of the communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaki Sejimo
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Patent number: 11403863Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and tracing items automatically or with a single command using uniquely coded icons are disclosed. A multifunctional scanning system automatically generates and provides different scannable codes to enable security and traceability for users, articles of manufacture, products, media files and the like. If automatic scanning is activated, the multifunctional scanning system scans each new screen automatically without a command (depending on setting the period of time between each scan, or depending on changes in the screen's display), then sends a request to a server and transmits the captured icon screenshot.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Inventor: Mohamad Alakkawi
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Patent number: 11405749Abstract: A networked information system reveals location information only to user contacts within a geographic range of the location-revealing user, and then only on a reciprocal authorization basis. Such a system provides a scalable, privacy-maintaining location-based service framework suitable for social networks and mobile users.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: KNOWHERE APP INC.Inventors: Lachlan Paul Given, Paul Charles Valmorbida, Jonathan Zawada, James Knight
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Patent number: 11399258Abstract: A ground-based wireless system named the Autonomous Transceivers Positioning System (“ATPS”), performs complete autonomous tracking of multiple moving objects and determines position and velocity components (speed and direction) of a moving object, or the stationary position of an object. For a moving object, the ATPS provides position determination, with accuracy of several centimeters, and velocity determination with an accuracy of centimeters per second. The ATPS tracks the position of multiple objects simultaneously and continuously for as long as the object(s) reside within the workspace of the ATPS wireless system. The ATPS is expandable in its workspace continuously by allowing for tracking information to be autonomously handed over to new added sections of the ATPS.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Inventors: George Zaloom, Alex Perez
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Patent number: 11397761Abstract: A mobile device including: a position locator; a user data engine; and a reputation engine client configured to: receive a location from the position locator; operate the user data engine to provide a user profile, intent, and context data for a user, the context data including dynamic factors about the user, and the profile including relative factors about the user that are relatively static with respect to the context data from the user data engine; and determine a reputation for the location, wherein the reputation is based at least in part on a combination of the user profile, intent, and context.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: McAfee, LLCInventors: Joydeb Mukherjee, Saravana Kumar Subramanian, Raj Vardhan, Rangaswamy Narayana, Shankar Subramanian, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Javed Hasan
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Patent number: 11386779Abstract: Systems and methods for achieving road action consensus in a network of moving things. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods for achieving road action consensus in vehicles (e.g., autonomous vehicles, manually controlled vehicles, etc.) of a network of moving things.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: VENIAM, INC.Inventors: Dário Nascimento, Roy Russell
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Patent number: 11381650Abstract: A system for analyzing data received from at least one mobile electronic device comprises a mobile electronic device and a server. The mobile electronic device includes a sensor configured to collect video, audio and/or imagery data, and the mobile electronic device is configured to initiate collection of data based on a command from a user of the mobile electronic device. The server includes a receiver configured to receive the video, audio and/or imagery data collected by the sensor of the mobile electronic device and a processing system. The processing system of the server includes a processor and is configured to, when a condition is met in accordance with a rule established on the server, issue a command to turn on the sensor of the mobile electronic device and enable the mobile electronic device to transmit the video, audio and/or imagery data collected by the sensor to the server, without any input by the user of the mobile electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: KNOWMADICS, INC.Inventors: Paul Maguire, Lisa Cinnamon, Claire Ostrum, Brian O'Toole, Steven Edgett, Charles Corcoran
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Patent number: 11374893Abstract: A location providing method implemented by a server comprising extracting text from an image received through an application executed on a first client, extracting matched location information corresponding to the image based on the text, and providing the matched location information and the image to one or more clients through the application.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATIONInventors: Jong Youn Ahn, Donghyun Kim, Hey Young Yun, Hyukjae Jang
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Patent number: 11374936Abstract: A process for transferring security access permissions between in-camera users includes capturing, at an electronic computing device via an image capture device, an image of two or more in-camera users. A first in-camera user and a second in-camera user are identified n the image. An input gesture identifying the first in-camera user as a source of security access permissions and the second in-camera user as a destination of security access permissions is detected. Responsively, the electronic computing device causes a first particular security access permission associated with the first in-camera user to be applied to and modify a current set of security access permissions associated with the second in-camera user.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INCInventors: Jakub Halun, Lukasz Chrzaszcz, Patryk Zmigrodzki, Lukasz Cebula
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Patent number: 11363417Abstract: In a general aspect, a method is presented for determining a motion zone for a location of motion detected by wireless signals. In some aspects, the method includes obtaining a time series of statistical parameters derived from sets of channel response data. The method also includes identifying time intervals in the time series of statistical parameters, each time interval associated with a respective motion zone in the space. The method additionally includes determining, by analyzing multiple time windows within each of the time intervals, ranges of motion-zone parameters associated with each respective motion zone. The method further includes storing, in a database of a motion detection system, the ranges of motion-zone parameters for the respective motion zones. The ranges of motion-zone parameters are used to identify one of the motion zones based on a motion event detected by the motion detection system.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.Inventors: Stephen Arnold Devison, Mohammad Omer
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Patent number: 11354766Abstract: An apparatus, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a transportation vehicle and a method for assisting a user of a transportation vehicle in finding a suitable fellow passenger. The method includes receiving a ride request having a definition of a starting position and of a destination position, automatically comparing the ride request against a predefined route of the transportation vehicle and taking a result of the comparison as a basis for automatically deciding, based on a predefined reference, whether or not the ride request is made to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Inventors: Astrid Kassner, Joel Rozada, Fredrik Andresen
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Patent number: 11347264Abstract: A device for handheld operation is provided. The device comprises a touchscreen and processing means operative to display a plurality of user-interface (UI) elements on the touchscreen, wherein each UI element is associated with an action which is performed in response to touching the UI element, determine one or more of the displayed UI elements which a user of the device is likely to touch based on a touch pattern, and perform, for at least one of the determined UI elements, the action associated with the UI element. The action may, e.g., comprise pre-fetching content which is likely to be requested by the user from a server. Performing an action, such as pre-fetching, based on a touch pattern is advantageous since a touch pattern reflects the relative likelihood that the user touches a specific position, or region, of the touchscreen, thereby reducing latency.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Peter Ökvist, Tommy Arngren, Till Burkert, David Lindegren
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Patent number: 11337177Abstract: A system and method for generating amorphous randomized and/or fuzzy logic dynamic display icons that visually communicate to its users and/or entities that a subject's geographic location is being obfuscated on a graphical mapping interface of the user's computing device by way of continuously generating a dynamic location display icon having amorphous and/or asymmetrical shape, size, position, color, opacity, outline, movement, and/or transformation rate, and displaying the generated dynamic display icon on the graphical mapping interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Glowstik, Inc.Inventor: Adam Montoya Marez
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Patent number: 11307299Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform sensing applications using communication signals. The first wireless device may determine to perform a sensing application and to perform the sensing application using a communication signal to be transmitted to a second device. In other words, the first wireless device may use a transmission that is scheduled for communication purposes to additionally perform sensing of one or more types. Example sensing or radar-like applications include estimating distance, motion, and/or angle to one or more objects or structures in the vicinity of the first wireless device. After transmitting the communication signal to the second wireless device, the first wireless device may receive a reflection of the communication signal. The first wireless device may use the reflection to perform the sensing application.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael Kerner, Zohar Agon, Michael Ney
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Patent number: 11308950Abstract: A beacon system is used to monitor the location and identity of individuals using stationary sniffers and to provide that information to a virtual assistant for improved functionality and better context derived from location with respect to standard virtual assistant queries. The system provides a heuristic mapping process providing increasingly precise mapping of the individual with minimal consumer input.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: 4PLAN CorporationInventors: Parminder Mann, Gerard Rizkallah, Firass Badaruzzaman
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Patent number: 11290865Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system comprises a base station and a terminal device (UE). The UE is configured to determine its mobility status and an associated reliability, e.g. an indication of the extent to which the UE is moving and the confidence in this determination. In some cases the reliability may be based on how the UE determined its mobility status. For example, if the UE determined itself to be of relatively low mobility because it has an internal configuration setting indicating it is deployed in a fixed position, the reliability of this mobility status may be considered to be greater than if the UE determined itself to be of relatively low mobility because it has not recently undergone many base station handovers. The UE is configured to convey an indication of the mobility status and the reliability to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Brian Alexander Martin
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Patent number: 11270265Abstract: Navigating a neighborhood using an interactive electronic map displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile software application executing on a wireless mobile computer device. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving the interactive electronic map, automatically displaying the interactive electronic map with a neighborhood, a first selectable icon overlaying a first building, and a second selectable icon overlaying a second building, receiving a selection of the first selectable icon overlaying the first building, automatically displaying a name of the first current occupant, receiving a selection of the name of the first current occupant, and automatically displaying one or more additional current characteristics of the first current occupant.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Vivint Inc.Inventors: Jason Cragun, Lonnie Kyser
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Patent number: 11255976Abstract: A method for operating a correction service system (CSS), for a satellite navigation system (SNS), having reference-stations (RS) (in a coordinate-system (CS)) having known/fixed coordinates, the RS being operated to receive satellite signals, at least one correction-value (CV) being predefined as a function of the signals received by the selected RS and its coordinates, and is provided to user-devices of the SNS, the at least one CV being checked for plausibility. The CSS divides the CS into multiple-regions, in which user-devices determine an individual position as a function of the plausibility of the received CV, at least one specific-region being selected as a function of the plausibility of the CV, the specific-region(s) being assigned the at least one CV, at least one information-packet being generated, which contains indications about the plausibility of the CV and the specific-region(s), the information-packet(s) being provided to at least one selected group of user-devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jens Strobel, Markus Langer
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Patent number: 11252531Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for defining, generating, utilizing, and/or detecting a geo-fence are described. A trigger is obtained, the trigger generated in response to a change in a geo-fence criteria. One or more boundaries of the geo-fence based on the geo-fence criteria are defined in response to obtaining the trigger.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: EBAY INC.Inventor: Dennis Cheung
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Patent number: 11238478Abstract: Methods and systems for commercializing vehicle data. The method includes writing, by an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle, to a distributed ledger, vehicle data. The method also includes providing, by a computing device associated with a third party, a communication to the vehicle based on the vehicle data on the distributed ledger. The method also includes writing, by a processor of the computing device associated with the third party, to the distributed ledger, a record of providing the communication to the vehicle. The method also includes receiving, by the ECU of the vehicle, the communication.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventors: Michael C. Edwards, David M. Goemer, Hazem Ahmed
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Patent number: 11200891Abstract: Microphone data indicative of a user spoken phrase is captured utilizing the microphone at a communication apparatus. At least a portion of the microphone data is sent to a set of computing devices. A response phrase determined at a virtual assistant service is received from each of the computing devices. A preferred response phrase is identified among the set of received response phrases according to a preference rule. The preferred response phrase is caused to be output via a speaker at the communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: David H. Hanes, John Michael Main, Jon R. Dory
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Patent number: 11197211Abstract: A network device may determine a geographical distance between an earth station and the network device. The network device may receive a plurality of geographical distances between the earth station and a corresponding plurality of other network devices. The network device may determine location coordinate points for an exclusion zone, associated with the earth station, based on the geographical distance and the plurality of geographical distances. The network device may generate an exclusion zone system information block that includes the location coordinate points for the exclusion zone. The network device may determine a state of a user equipment associated with the network device. The network device may provide, to the user equipment, the exclusion zone system information block based on the state of the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Jignesh S. Panchal
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Patent number: 11169658Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and instructions are described for generating and using expressive icons with status indicators for a map based graphical user interface (GUI). One embodiment involves accessing location information, map data icon information, and action indicator information associated with an account of a social media platform. A device then causes generation of a combined action icon generated using the icon information and the action indicator and causes display of a map interface with the map data and the combined action icon positioned at a location indicated by the location information.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Laurent Desserrey, Donald Giovannini, Daniel Rakhamimov
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Patent number: 11166170Abstract: A technique for collecting and using signal reputation data, comprising obtaining a plurality of signal reputation data corresponding to a plurality of locations, categorizing the signal reputation data into groups, calculating signal circles for at least some of the groups based on a representative signal value for the corresponding group, calculating a signal reputation score for each signal circle, determining a best signal circle for a user mobile device within a predetermined distance of dead zones, and sending the best signal circle to the user mobile device based at least in part on the signal reputation score and a location of the user mobile device. In some embodiments, the technique may include some but not all of these actions and additional actions, such as suspending obtaining signal reputation data based on battery status.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: MCAFEE, LLCInventors: Raja Sinha, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Srikanth Nalluri, Anjan Kumar Nayak, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Susmita Nayak, Purushothaman B, Harsha R. Joshi
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Patent number: 11162802Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention can obtain and use a variety of telematics data to classify trips taken by a vehicle. Trip models can be generated based on telematics data captured during the operation of a vehicle. A variety of features of the trip model, such as the timing and/or location of stops made by the vehicle during one or more trips, can be used to classify the trip as a business trip or a personal trip. In several embodiments, machine classifiers are trained to classify features within the trip models based on historical trips that have been classified as business trips or personal trips. A number of trip models can be combined with other driver attributes to classify a particular vehicle and/or driver as engaged with a transportation network company.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Alex Kreig, Anthony Recchia, En-Chieh Yang, Kelly Link, Chhavi Tiwari
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Patent number: 11156465Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for navigating an indoor area such as an indoor transit system using a mobile device are described herein. The method may include navigating a network of indoor pathways and a plurality of access points for entering/exiting the indoor pathways. The indoor pathways may be mapped and may include a plurality of beacons distributed at designated locations throughout the indoor pathways. The beacons may be detected using a mobile computing device and an indoor location of the mobile computing device may be determined and depicted on the map of the indoor pathways. The location of the mobile computing device may be used to determine a route from the location of the mobile computing device to a destination in or adjacent the mapped indoor pathways.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Sanjay Roy, Murugan Gopalan, Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Roshan Lawrence Valder
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Patent number: 11153710Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, performed at an electronic device, for determining a geofence parameter of a geofence area related to a point of interest, POI. The method comprises obtaining a location of the POI, obtaining first POI data based on the location of the POI. The method may comprise determining, based on the location of the POI, one or more entities in proximity of the POI. The method comprises obtaining second POI data related to at least one entity of the one or more entities. The method comprises generating a set of enclosing features related to the POI based on the second POI data, wherein generating the set of enclosing features comprises applying a processing scheme to the second POI data; and determining a geofence parameter based on the first POI data and the set of enclosing features.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Sony Network Communications Europe B.V.Inventors: Peter Exner, Magnus Johansson
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Patent number: 11147048Abstract: A method for resource scheduling and related products are provided according to implementations of the present disclosure. The method includes the following. A base station receives a scheduling request from a first terminal through higher layer signaling, where the scheduling request is sent by a second terminal to the first terminal, the first terminal is within coverage of the base station, and the second terminal is outside the coverage of the base station. The base station sends a scheduled resource through the higher layer signaling to the first terminal according to the scheduling request, where the scheduled resource is forwarded by the first terminal to the second terminal. By adopting the implementations of the present disclosure, an objective can be achieved that the base station directly schedules wireless resources configuration for the terminal outside the coverage of the base station in the relay scenario.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yixue Lei, Yunfei Zhang
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Patent number: 11113024Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device. The electronic device may include: a display; a communication module comprising communication circuitry; a processor; and a memory configured to store information on an application executed by the processor and information on a screen output through the display, wherein the processor is configured to receive an input for execution of a first application related to provision of a communication service, to determine information related to an other party of the communication service based on the received input, to determine whether the information related to the other party is included on a screen for a second application output through the display if the input is received, and to transmit the information related to the other party included on the screen for the second application to the other party through the communication module, if the information related to the other party is included on the screen for the second application.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiwon Kim, Kyuok Choi, Chaekyung Lee
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Patent number: 11061855Abstract: Method of retrieving event information is presented. Memento objects can be recognized by an archive engine. Based on the recognition, the archive engine obtains information related to the memento object, possibly one or more recognizable features, and uses the information to search for events associated with a timeline that have corresponding tags. The archive engine can then return the event information as a result set to a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLCInventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Patent number: 11057090Abstract: A method and an apparatus for communicating with an external device using a beam in an electronic device supporting beamforming are provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuitry, an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements, and at least one processor. The processor may be configured to form and transmit a beam corresponding to a direction of the electronic device based on a start of a service, monitor reception of a response signal corresponding to the beam from an external device, and performs pairing with the external device based on at least a part of the response signal if the response signal is received.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaehyuk Lee, Nari Kim, Mincheol Seo, Junwhon Uhm, Sungchul Park, Jiyoon Park, Yongsang Yun
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Patent number: 11029169Abstract: Disclosed herein are a navigation service method for providing unusable route information related to an emergency area and a server apparatus therefor. The navigation service method includes constructing an emergency area resource including unusable route information related to an emergency area; and receiving trip parameters from multiple applications and transmitting a link, through which the emergency area resource is accessible, to an application, the trip parameter of which includes a request to provide unusable route information related to an emergency area, wherein transmitting the link is configured to transmit a link, through which the same emergency area resource is accessible, to applications that request provision of unusable route information related to the same emergency area.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jae-Hyuk Choi, Young-Su Cho
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Patent number: 11025837Abstract: Systems and methods are described for replacing a background portion of an image. An illustrative method includes receiving a first image, identifying a background portion of the first image and a subject portion of the first image, identifying a geographic location corresponding to the background portion of the first image, retrieving a plurality of other images depicting the geographic location, selecting a second image from the plurality of other images, wherein the second image is associated with metadata indicating that the second image was captured during a predetermined time period, and generating for display a third image comprising the subject portion of the first image placed over the second image.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: ROVl GUIDES, INC.Inventors: Deviprasad Punja, Aditya Rautray
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Patent number: 10999289Abstract: An IoT E2E Service Layer Security Management system supports methods and procedures to allow an application to establish, use, and teardown an IoT SL communication session that has application specified E2E security preferences and that targets one or more SL addressable targets (e.g., an IoT application, device, or gateway SL addressable resource). E2E SL Session based methods and procedures described herein achieve a required overall E2E security level, by allowing IoT SL instances to influence and coordinate hop security for a multi-hop communication path spanning across multiple intermediary nodes. The methods and procedures described herein reduce overhead, simplify and obviate the need for E2E service level nodes (initiation and termination nodes) from having to perform security service negotiation, in order to establish secure hop-by-hop security associations aligned with an E2E security requirement.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLCInventors: Yogendra C. Shah, Vinod Kumar Choyi, Dale N. Seed, Michael F. Starsinic, William Robert Flynn, IV, Zhuo Chen
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Patent number: 10993221Abstract: A method for receiving a signal in a user equipment (UE) from a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of configuring a plurality of intervals of a specific time region for indicating whether to transmit the signal, through a higher layer; receiving an indicator for indicating whether to transmit the signal, for each of the plurality of intervals; and receiving a signal in each of the plurality of intervals in accordance with indication of the received indicator, wherein at least one of the plurality of intervals of the specific time region may have a first size, and the other intervals except the at least one interval may have a second size.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Ilmu Byun, Yunjung Yi
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Patent number: 10956754Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of photographed images with photographing location information of the plurality of photographed images; an extraction unit configured to extract, from the photographed images, a plurality of object images containing an object preset as an extraction object; a clustering unit configured to cluster the object images into a plurality of clusters; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, from map information, at least one name of at least one facility present around each photographing location of the object images; and an application unit configured to apply, to the object images belonging to an intended cluster included in the clusters, a label of a specific name of a specific facility satisfying an application condition among the at least one name of the at least one facility acquired by the second acquisition unit for the object images.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuya Nishimura
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Patent number: 10952135Abstract: The present application provides a WLAN access method. The method includes: obtaining an access location of a UE; obtaining AP access information of the UE at the access location; selecting an AP according to the obtained AP access information to access a WLAN; and sending AP access information of the selected AP to the UE. The present application further provides another WLAN access method and a corresponding apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenfu Wu, Yan Li
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Patent number: 10943395Abstract: A computer implemented method and a virtual and physical environment integration system (VPEIS) for dynamically integrating a virtual environment with a physical environment are provided. The VPEIS receives dimensions and an orientation of the physical environment, and a user device's reference position in the physical environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: VIRTEX APPS, LLCInventor: Jeffrey Michael Green
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Patent number: 10939232Abstract: An apparatus for use by a mobile edge control element or function, the apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least: to receive and process an event report indicating that location information of a communication element communicating in a communication network are provided, to check location related application information for determining whether or not a relationship of at least one application to a location corresponding to the location information indicated in the event report is present, to prepare, in case the check is affirmative, an application identification indication for indicating at least one location area where location information of the communication element is of relevance for a processing conducted by at least one application, and to ensure that thType: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventor: John Juha Antero Rasanen
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Patent number: 10931836Abstract: In a communication system, a data processing terminal transmits a request for obtaining processing information for a specific service to one of an image acquisition terminal and a data processing server; receives a response including processing information from the one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server, the processing information indicating processing to be executed by at least one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server in providing the specific service; and transmits the processing information to other one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server, to cause the other one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server to configure settings based on the processing information and execute processing on the captured image data according to the settings.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takamichi Katoh, Yoshinaga Kato, Keiichi Kawaguchi